effort he/she has to put in, in order to successfully complete a course.

Completion of the academic

programme requires successful clearing of assignments, term-end examinations of each course in a
programme and practical components.

10. Support System

In order to provide individualised support to its learners, the Institute/State has a large number of
study centres. These are coordinated by the State itself. At the study centres, the learners interact
with the Study Centre Coordinator/ Workshop Coordinator, Assistant Study Centre, Resource
Person, Mentor, Supervisor and Peer groups, refer to books in the library and interact with the
Coordinator on administrative and academic matters. The support services are also provided through
work centres and programme centres.

11. Programme Delivery Strategies

Instructional system in the open system of education carries a great importance. It is the instructional
system that makes the open education meaningful, effective and interesting. The following
instructional system is adopted for this programme:

I-Core
Self-instructional Print Material
Assignments- such as Project work, case studies, port-folio preparation etc.
Inputs through organizing Workshops
Delivery of Practice Lessons
Practical Manuals (PCP, School Based Activities and Workshop Based Activities)
Practical Handbooks

II- Supplementary

Audio / Video materials

Lessons delivered through Teleconferencing

Interactive radio counselling

Inputs through Mobile

12. Print Material

The print material is the study materials for both theory and practical courses of the programme. It is
supplied to the students in the form of blocks. Each block contains 2-4 units. Each course has a code
number. The NIOS sends study materials along with assignments to their respective study centres. If
a student does not receive the same for any reason whatsoever, the NIOS shall not be held
responsible for that.

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13. Tutoring Sessions
In distance education, face-to-face contact between the learners and their tutors is relatively less.
The purpose of such a contact is to answer some of your questions and clarify your doubts that may
not be possible through any other means of communication. It also provides you with an opportunity
to meet your fellow students.

There are academic tutors at the Study Centres to provide guidance to you in the courses that you
have chosen for study. Normally, these sessions will be held at the study centres on Sundays and
other holidays.

You should note that the tutoring sessions would be very different from the classroom teaching or
lectures. Tutors will not be delivering lectures as in conventional teaching. They will try to help you
to overcome difficulties that you face while studying for the D.El.Ed programme. In these sessions,
you must try to resolve your subject-based difficulties and any other related problems.

Before attending the tutoring session for each course, please go through your
course material as per the session schedule and make a plan of the points to be
discussed. Unless you have gone through the Units, there may not be much to
discuss and may not be fruitful.

Within the general schedule of the programme, the coordinators at the Study Centres will decide on
the coverage of these sessions. The Study Centre coordinators will also provide the tutoring
schedule. The tutoring sessions will include clarifications required in the print-material. The tutoring
sessions are organised for theory courses. In this programme, 9 theory courses (8 compulsory and
one optional) having 33 credits on theoretical and 11 practical credits are offered to each student.
Tutoring sessions for 9 theory courses are to be organised for each student. There will be minimum
of 15 days in a year engaged for tutoring wherein minimum of 75 percent attendance is very essential
for each trainee. No credit is allowed for attending tutoring classes. But it will make them eligible to
sit in term-end examination. The schedule of tutoring Session is in Appendix-I.

14. Conduct of Practicals

To provide effective support to the practical work, NIOS has set up in consultation with State a
number of Study Centres where workshop of 12 days duration in each year of 2-year course will be
conducted during long holidays.

The Study Centres are located in DIETs/PTTIs/BRCs where academic tutoring and practical
workshop will be conducted. It will be managed by the Study Centre/ Workshop Coordinators. Each
Study Centre will be handling maximum of 100 students.

The detailed particulars regarding Study Centre to which you are attached will be communicated to
you by the state functionaries /NIOS/Study Centre.

Practicals will be held in the respective schools (working place) and also in the institutions identified
as Study Centres. As mentioned earlier, in practical courses, the practical work consists of school-
based activities and workshop-based activities, assignments and practice teaching. The School-Based
activities, assignments and practice teaching will be carried out in the respective school i.e., the work
centre (the place where the teacher trainees work). The workshop-based practicals will be organised
in two practical workshops of 24 days duration, i.e., 12 days each spreading over two years. The two
workshops include intensive face-to-face interaction to develop skills and competencies in the school
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